The Blue Board

TBH I'm not sure we even need ND if we get RU, MD, UVA, UNC, GT and MIA. If you look at a map of BCS schools and a list of major TV markets, we will have a presence in every market ND could possibly bring except Texas and the West Coast. ND would be gravy.

ND adds nothing to the B1G, market wise. All the other conferences would love to add them though, with what their footprint brings in.

I'm not saying the B10 does not want ND, but they are less incrementally valuable to us now that we are at 14 than they were when we were at 11. ND would have brought much of the same Northeastern markets RU and MD are expected to bring and would have allowed us to add a CCG game the way Nebraska did. But now that we have added those three schools, ND's incremental value to the B10 is less. And if ND waits until we go to 16 by adding UVA and UNC (or whichever remaining ACC teams you assume), ND's incremental value to the B10 will drop further. At this point, they probably are more valuable to the B12 or P12 than they are to the B10 or SEC. In fact, my guess is that ND ends up in the P12 when all the dust finally settles.

It's an issue, but at some point the TV money makes up for the extra home game you have to give up every two years. And they might be pushed to nine conference games just being at 16. I don't think they want to go to nine, but it's getting harder and harder to stay at eight.

ND doesn't need anyone now. They have fallen behind a handful of top programs in revenues, but that ebbs and flows and they should jump back up into the top group with their next TV contract. IMO that is why Delany has decided to move on without them. Delany is expanding the B10 footprint based on the assumption the B10 will never get ND. The SEC is doing the same. Only the ACC and B12 are sitting around right now thinking it's only a matter of time before the land the Irish. Amateurs.

Would be funny to watch Kent State open up a can on FSU in the Orange Bowl.

Go Kent State. Woohoo!!

UM VS ATM sounding like a lock in the Cap One now. This will be my first time ever rooting for UM. Any tips?

i'm maybe 80% sure that they would win the MAC, but it's very sad that i'm not 100% sure.

If wisconsin wins, UM can't be in the Cap One bowl. TAMU is pretty much locked in though

I really hate ATM.

That kind of year.

Nope. EST.

Furthest western state in the eastern time zone. On lake Michigan in late June the western sky is often still blew at 10:30 pm.

When max bullough's grandpa Hank started coaching in Buffalo years ago it was a lot darker at 8pm there in august then it usually is in Michigan at 8 pm. The buffalo reporters quoted him as saying "man it gets late early out here."